These are three training centers for the victims of Agent Orange (a mixture of herbicides used from 1950 during the Vietnam War) that the Franco-Vietnamese Friendship Association (AAFV) plans to carry out this year.
The announcement was made Saturday morning by the Eure-et-Loir committee, which met in general assembly at the Maison des Syndicats, in the Haus-de-Chartres district.
Created in October 2019, this committee organized a debate evening at the cinema, in 2020, in the presence of Vietnamese director Thuy To Nga, and a “Vietnam Day” event in Voves, in October 2021.
“A cork a smile”
This year, a week of training in hygiene and food safety, in partnership with the CFA, will be offered to Vietnamese catering entrepreneurs. A first session will be scheduled in July and a second in February 2023.
At the same time, the Eure-et-Loir committee continues its “One stopper, one smile” action: it collects plastic stoppers to help educate street children in Ho-Chi-Minh City. An exchange between apprentices from different training centers is also planned.
Gilbert Tenez, president of the Eure-et-Loir committee of the AAFV, underlines: “We support Thuy To Nga who is leading a fight against poisoners with agent orange and who will soon come to France to meet the President of the Republic . Even today, children are born with various deformities…”
A trip to Vietnam is planned in the coming months. In the meantime, the volunteers are continuing their project: building a class by the end of the year, in a Vietnamese village.
Convenient. Eure-et-Loir Committee of the Franco-Vietnamese Friendship Association, tel. 06.77.01.00.10; email: [email protected]
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